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Tuya Smart Showcases Industry Insights at the 2024 TUYA Global Developer Summit, Drawing Over 3,000 Attendees Across Three Theme Forums

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NEW YORK, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA, HKEX: 2391), a global cloud platform service provider, hosted the signature 2024 TUYA Global Developer Summit at the Shangri-La Hotel in Futian, Shenzhen. The summit attracted an array of esteemed guests from top domestic and international companies, including Amazon, Lenovo, Haier, Silicon Labs, TÜV SÜD, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Texas Instruments, Google Cloud, Goneo Group, Geely, Enerlution, Cerence, Mentech, Secure Net, BangBang, Sixeco, Delos, Easyhome, ZBOM, V2 Indonesia, In Space, Hometree, Simon, Chli, and Smartec. These industry leaders convened to engage in thought-provoking discussions on cutting-edge topics such as GenAI, large language models, and green sustainable development.

With the highest attendance in Tuya’s history, the Shenzhen edition of the summit attracted over 3,000 developers from various sectors within the global smart industry’s upstream and downstream chain. Participants included manufacturers, system integrators, real estate groups, channel and solution providers, Chinese overseas brands, cross-border e-commerce sellers, core foreign trade OEM/ODM factories, overseas buyers, and traders. International delegates joined developers to witness this momentous event in the world of smart technology, showcasing the global impact and significance of Tuya Smart’s initiatives.

The summit boasted an impressive lineup, comprising a main forum and two subsidiary forums. The main forum, centered on the topic “GenAI + IoT: Driving Smarter Spaces,” delved into the integration and cutting-edge applications of GenAI technology with intelligent devices, elucidating how these innovative  technologies fuel industry expansion. The subsidiary forums tackled two pivotal topics: “A Novel Approach to Green, Low-carbon, and Sustainable Living” and “Navigating Industry Innovation – the Developer’s Influence”. Experts from diverse industries converged to discuss emerging trends, patterns, and prospects in industrial advancement, integrating market insights with their hands-on expertise.

Furthermore, Tuya collaborated with industry giants to present the Tuya Ecosystem Partner Exhibition (TEPE), highlighting numerous innovative AI devices and solutions to a global audience of developers. The products exhibited covered various verticals, including home automation, security, pet care, elderly assistance, and healthcare, offering participants a closer glimpse into the functionalities, applications, and future potential of contemporary AI hardware.

Discussing Opportunities and Challenges in the GenAI Era

As the GenAI revolution gains momentum, the AI hardware market has embarked on a new journey that is reshaping the smart ecosystem. Consequently, an important question has emerged: how will GenAI technology broaden application horizons and enhance user experiences with a more human touch? During the morning session of the main forum, industry luminaries, including Leo Chen, Co-Chairman and President of Tuya Smart, Mengrou Deng, Product Head of the Developer Platform at Tuya Smart, Will Yu, Chief Scientist of AI and Head of the AI Algorithm Research Center at Tuya Smart, and Dr. Yaxiao Liu, CTO of AWS GCR, shared their insights. They examined the future trajectory of the smart industry propelled by GenAI and gave their perspectives on such topics as business, products, and application scenarios.

At the summit, Tuya unveiled its groundbreaking AI large language model, Cube AI. Leveraging Tuya’s vast ecosystem and its prowess in open-source large models, Cube AI has broad applicability in a variety of smart scenarios. For instance, Cube AI provides real-time insights into energy consumption and generates tailored energy-saving strategies, addressing challenges such as scene incompatibility, data issues, and low ROI that developers often encounter in their daily R&D efforts. This enables developers to swiftly implement energy-saving solutions across industrial, commercial, and residential settings.

Furthermore, with the United Nations Global Compact as a witness, Tuya formally inaugurated its ESG Practice Initiative. Eva Na, Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Cooperation and CMO of Tuya Smart, emphasized Tuya’s commitment to actively promoting the global application of cutting-edge technologies, including GenAI, to integrate smart capabilities into a wider range of real-world scenarios. She also extended a call to global ESG practitioners to collaborate to ensure that more people across the globe can experience the convenience of the smart world.

As GenAI technology continues to progress, it is expected to fuel new growth opportunities for the industry. In the second session of the Main Forum, titled “Embracing Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Growth,” an array of experts shared their insights. Jing Chen, Technical Lead of TuyaOS at Tuya Smart, Tiangang Qin, Director of Strategic Cooperation at Lenovo Group, Xiangyu Xue, IoT R&D Director of Haier Water PL, Tianjie Zhang, Chief Architect of AI Computing at Alibaba Cloud, Kevin Hu, Alexa Smart Home Principle BD Manager, Stephanie Chen, Head of Shenzhen Business Development at Amazon GlobalSelling, Anthony Zhou, China General Manager of Silicon Labs, and Erdan Ma, Section Manager at TÜV SÜD, all  gave in-depth analyses of the new developments spurred by emerging technologies. They also discussed from diverse perspectives the opportunities and challenges presented in the GenAI era.

During the panel discussion, industry leaders, including Zheyuan Nie, the Technical Director of the Developer Platform at Tuya Smart; Beta Wang, General Manager of Tencent Cloud Intelligence, Head of Tencent Cloud Intelligent Products; Jerry Shi, the China FAE Director of Texas Instruments; and Levi Chen, the Customer Solutions Architect of Google Cloud, participated in an in-depth dialogue. Their discussion centered on a critical question: “How are disruptive innovations powering the smart home revolution?” The panel delved into the latest trends in this area and anticipated future applications of cutting-edge technologies that are shaping the smart home landscape.

Exploring the Integration Path of Green Low-Carbon and Technological Innovation Development

On the afternoon of May 29, two concurrent sub-forums were held: “A Novel Approach to Green, Low-carbon, and Sustainable Living” and “Navigating Industry Innovation – the Developer’s Influence”. These events attracted many esteemed guests, each of whom contributed valuable insights and perspectives.

Amidst the global shift in energy structure and evolving market demands, sustainable, green, and high-quality development models have emerged as the preferred choice of numerous enterprises. The question of how enterprises can leverage new technologies in the GenAI era to achieve intelligent energy management has become a critical topic of discussion.

During the “A Novel Approach to Green, Low-carbon, and Sustainable Living” sub-forum, leaders from various industries convened to share their perspectives.  Weiwei Xie, the Vice President and General Manager of New Energy Division of Goneo Group; Jia Li, the Deputy General Manager of Storage Division of Geely Viridi; Yu Chen, the General Manager of Enerlution, Shaobin Xiao, the China Business Vice President of Cerence; Jingzhou Li, the General Manager of Mentech, Hua Wang, the General Manager of Secure Net; Chen Yangbin Chen, the CTO of Bangbang Robotics; Ye Yang, the Product Planning Director of Manufacturing Bureau of Sixeco; Qinghui Yang, the New Energy Solutions Product Director of Tuya Smart; and Rui Bai, the Smart Mobility Solutions Product Director of Tuya Smart, all emphasized the crucial role of energy-saving and emission reduction efforts. They discussed energy management strategies propelled by new technologies, drawing from their respective experiences in the automotive, electrical, home, mobility, and storage sectors.

In the “Navigating Industry Innovation – the Developer’s Influence” sub-forum, industry leaders convened to explore the ways in which technology and platform functionalities can foster differentiated competitive edges for products and fuel the growth of smart businesses. Among them were Haiping Ying, the General Manager of Tuya Smart Commercial; Xue Ya, the President of Delos Asia and International WELL Building Institute Asia; Yuzhi Fang, the Vice President of Easyhome; Mu Tang, the Founder of In Space; Rudi Hidayat, the CEO of V2 Indonesia; Elvio Ransolin, the CEO of Hometree; Zhiwen Wu, the ZBOM Smart Home Business Director; Guangming Zheng, the Simon China Marketing Director; Dechao Chen, the Founder of Chil; and Jianfeng Liu, the Founder of Smartec, who all shared insights reflecting their respective industry landscapes.

Furthermore, during these sub-forums, Tuya organized cooperation agreement signing ceremonies with several notable companies, including Zhilian, Mentech, Aofude, Firefly, AiTAN, Easyhome, Delos, V2 Indonesia, and Hometree. Looking ahead, Tuya aims to capitalize on the strengths of its partners across industries, technologies, and products, fostering mutually beneficial collaborations through synergistic efforts and complementary expertise.

Unveiling Global Potential: Premier Showcase of Hundreds of Cutting-edge Smart Hardware Products at the Ecosystem Exhibition

At this year’s developers summit, Tuya collaborated with valued partners like Chil, Huizhu, Lingke, and Silicon Labs to host the revolutionary Tuya Ecosystem Partner Exhibition (TEPE). This integrated exhibition IP not only consolidates brand power but also fosters technical exchanges and enhances industry collaboration. Its objective is to unite global developers in showcasing cutting-edge technologies and achievements, capitalizing on the momentum of the TUYA Global Developer Summit to amplify brand influence and foster deeper global business partnerships.

The exhibition showcased hundreds of smart hardware products spanning a diversity of sectors such as home, security, pets, energy, mobility, office, and commerce. Among them, innovative AI products like smart bird feeders, pet machines, and smart rings stole the show. These products seamlessly integrate AI capabilities, executing user commands with remarkable accuracy based on daily habits and real-world scenarios, and left exhibition attendees with an unforgettable immersive experience.

The TEPE was not only a showcase for smart hardware, but also highlighted numerous pioneering solutions that illustrated the practical applications and scenario-specific value of AI hardware across diverse fields, including smart central control screen solutions and smart lighting innovations. Attendees were treated to an immersive experience and were able to appreciate the advantages of smart living and technology.

In the evenings, Tuya facilitated business banquets, such as “Winning Force: Visionaries’ Night” and “Smart Expansion Overseas: Setting Sail on a New Journey.” These events served as a comfortable platform for fostering meaningful communication among upstream and downstream enterprises in the smart industry, investors, developer representatives, cross-border buyer groups, and traders. They facilitated the establishment of robust business partnerships and the collaborative exploration of lucrative business opportunities in the GenAI era.

For developers, the TUYA Global Developers Summit is a momentous AI industrial gathering, allowing participants to reflect on the present while envisioning the future. Experts from internationally renowned enterprises converged to share their wealth of experience and their insights for the future. The exchange of ideas among these industry leaders will not only offer scientific guidance for current corporate endeavors but also further the convergence of technology and business in the GenAI era, thereby accelerating the development of global smart business.

 

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Infinitus Launches FieldForce to Extend the Reach of Pharmaceutical Sales and Reimbursement Teams

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AI agent solution helps field teams become AI first, preparing for HCP meetings, staying connected between visits, and extending provider and reimbursement support without adding additional headcount

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Infinitus, healthcare’s agentic communications platform, today announced FieldForce, a new set of secure AI agents designed to extend the capacity of pharmaceutical field teams. Pharma companies can deploy FieldForce to support sales representatives, field reimbursement managers (FRMs), or both, depending on the needs of their organization. For both roles, FieldForce enables teams to become AI-first, using AI agents to extend their capacity across activities before, after, and in between HCP interactions. Importantly, it gives pharmaceutical companies another way to support more providers while giving HCPs access to information and assistance between field visits that can help them better serve their patients.

Pharmaceutical companies are under growing pressure to increase commercial productivity while managing costs. A May 2026 analysis from Deloitte found that sales representatives spend roughly two-thirds of their workday on activities such as research, product and prescribing information, scheduling, and administrative work, leaving less than one-third for customer interactions.

The pressure to do more with existing resources is also playing out across the industry. One recent analysis found that the 17 largest pharmaceutical companies collectively reduced their workforces by more than 22,000 employees in 2025, as companies looked to improve efficiency and prepare for patent expirations and other market pressures. FieldForce is specifically designed to help organizations like these extend field capacity without requiring a corresponding increase in headcount.

Supporting sales and reimbursement teams around HCP interactions

FieldForce gives sales representatives and FRMs agentic support to help manage the work around HCP interactions. The agents connect with field teams’ CRMs to pull together information for preparation before a meeting, capture notes, and update systems afterward. Additional FieldForce agents can be available for inbound calls 24/7 to support providers by answering questions between visits.

For FRMs, AI agents can answer questions about prior authorization status, claims and reimbursement, and help onboard provider offices with approved access materials. Across these interactions, Infinitus Lens provides same-day compliance monitoring and surfaces trends and insights, such as: prescribing trends per provider or provider tier; emerging question themes or support topics; and recommendations for proactive and compliant content or education that can be shared.

Extending provider reach without adding field headcount

FieldForce is also designed to help pharmaceutical companies support providers who may not have regular contact with a sales representative or FRM. A dedicated AI agent can be available between visits, giving providers a direct path to information and support when a field team member is unavailable. For HCPs, that can mean more timely access to information and reimbursement support as they work to help patients access and navigate their treatment. For pharmaceutical companies, it can expand coverage across a larger provider population without requiring a corresponding increase in field hires.

“Our pharma customers need their field teams to cover more providers while managing significant cost and productivity pressures,” said Ankit Jain, CEO and co-founder of Infinitus Systems. “They’re also seeing that the companies embracing AI are finding new ways to scale and operate more efficiently, making an AI-first approach increasingly essential to staying competitive. FieldForce gives sales and reimbursement teams AI support across the work that happens before, after and in between HCP interactions, extending their capacity so they can spend more of their time on the relationships and issues that require their attention.”

Connecting commercial and medical conversations safely

Infinitus FieldForce is built around the distinction between promotional and medical communications within pharmaceutical organizations. The sales agent can support appropriate promotional conversations with HCPs. When a provider asks a clinical or safety question that falls outside the sales representative’s role, the agent can hand the conversation off to a member of the organization’s Medical Information team along with full context. This gives HCPs a direct path to the appropriate resource while helping sales representatives stay within their role.

Built for pharmaceutical organizations

FieldForce brings Infinitus’s trusted, healthcare-native AI to power internal tools for the first time. AI agents are trained on specific data and resources provided by each individual pharma organization along with Infinitus’s proprietary knowledge graph that leverages historical data from millions of payor interactions. This gives pharmaceutical leaders a consistent source of approved information across provider engagement and reimbursement workflows, while providing a way to measure the impact of AI through metrics such as provider coverage, interactions, and cost per interaction.

In July, Infinitus announced its AI-first, human-backed hub solution, designed to streamline patient, provider, and payor communications traditionally managed through legacy call-center infrastructure. FieldForce extends Infinitus’s AI agent capabilities into pharmaceutical commercial and market access teams, giving sales representatives and FRMs around-the-clock support while helping HCPs get timely answers and support to help patients.

About Infinitus

Infinitus is healthcare’s agentic AI communications platform, coordinating conversations and workflows across providers, health plans, specialty pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and patients to make sure care reaches those who need it. Infinitus’s system combines industry-leading safety guardrails with the largest dynamic knowledge graph built on millions of real-world interactions. The company has raised over $100M from investors including Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, and Coatue. Infinitus was recently named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies and is trusted by over 50% of the Fortune 50 healthcare companies. Learn more at www.infinitus.ai

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JND AutoRedact™ Wins 2026 Relativity Innovation Award

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AutoRedact recognized for delivering redaction accuracy at scale inside Relativity aiR.

SEATTLE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JND Legal Administration, the U.S. leader in legal management and administration services, announced that its AutoRedact™ AI-assisted redaction tool has received the Relativity Innovation Award in the Act category at Relativity Fest 2026, the premier event in the eDiscovery industry. The Act Award honors solutions that enhance Relativity’s redaction, quality control, reporting, case strategy, or production features, delivering meaningful results.

AutoRedact uses both AI and deterministic rules to find and redact sensitive information like personal data or privileged content within images stored in Relativity aiR (formerly RelativityOne). Legal teams describe in plain language what needs to be redacted, iterate and test the results on sample documents in the Detector Lab, and then apply the calibrated instructions at scale across their document populations. AutoRedact also has a dedicated detector for data subject access requests (DSARs) that redacts personal and sensitive information while keeping the requesting individual’s own data visible, a common and time-consuming challenge in privacy compliance. AutoRedact provides confidence levels for redactions to assist legal teams with focusing their human QC efforts and every redaction can be reviewed and adjusted before documents are produced.

“I’m incredibly grateful to our team, whose expertise and relentless testing made AutoRedact possible,” said Ben Sexton, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Strategy at JND. “We’re excited about what AutoRedact can do for our clients.”

“Innovation at JND has always meant building tools that deliver real, measurable results,” said Jennifer Keough, CEO and Co-Founder of JND. “AutoRedact reflects the ingenuity and dedication of our team, and this award is a testament to their work. We congratulate everyone who made it possible.”

Headquartered in Seattle, JND continues to solidify its status as the industry leader in end-to-end eDiscovery solutions. Its eDiscovery service line supports corporations, law firms, and government agencies in deploying the best solutions and technology to meet their goals using Relativity aiR, the market’s leading cloud-based technology solution. JND is one of only two Relativity Platinum Provider Partners.

This award marks JND’s second Relativity Innovation Award in three years. In 2024, Ben Sexton received the Relativity Innovation Award in the Artificial Intelligence category for his leadership in the adoption and development of generative AI tools in eDiscovery. JND’s team also includes three Relativity AI Visionary award recipients.

To schedule a demo of AutoRedact, contact autoredact@jndla.com.

About JND Legal Administration

JND eDiscovery, a RelativityOne software reseller and a division of JND Legal Administration, a Sedgwick company, is the nation’s foremost legal services and settlement administration solutions provider. JND’s fully-featured Relativity aiR instance and professional services team support a broad network of plaintiff and defendant law firms, corporate legal departments and government agency clients in future-proofing their eDiscovery systems. For more information, visit https://www.jndla.com/ediscovery.

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L8P8 Launches Tru8 Connect, Free Messaging That Uses Usernames Instead of Phone Numbers

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Messages are end-to-end encrypted, kept only on users’ phones and deleted after eight days

GLENDALE, Calif., Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — L8P8 Inc. today launched Tru8 Connect, a free messaging feature inside the Loop8 app for iOS and Android. People on Tru8 Connect find each other by username, so neither person ever sees the other’s phone number.

Giving someone your number is a bigger step than it used to be. A phone number can lead to your name, your address and the accounts tied to it. Once you hand it out, you can’t take it back. On Tru8 Connect, if a conversation goes badly, you block the person and that’s the end of it. They never had your number in the first place.

Messages are end-to-end encrypted. Loop8’s servers pass them along but can’t read them, and they delete each message once it’s delivered. After that, the message exists only on the two phones in the conversation, and opening it takes Face ID or a fingerprint. Every message deletes itself eight days after it’s sent.

When the app detects a screenshot or screen recording of a chat or a shared photo, it alerts everyone in the conversation and shows who took it.

“People think twice before giving a stranger their phone number, and they should,” said Zarik Megerdichian, founder and CEO of L8P8. “With Tru8 Connect, you don’t have to. And since we delete messages once they’re delivered, there’s no pile of old conversations sitting on our servers for someone to break into later.”

Tru8 Connect is open to users 16 and older. It’s available now in the Loop8 app, which is free on the App Store and Google Play. Loop8 also includes a password manager and an authenticator, both unlocked with biometrics instead of a master password.

About L8P8 Inc.
L8P8 Inc., based in Glendale, Calif., makes privacy and identity software that uses biometrics in place of passwords. Its products include Loop8, a consumer app, and Loop8ID, an age verification and identity platform for businesses. Learn more at loop8.ai and loop8id.com.

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